B2B Memes

OCTOBER 6, 2011

Both Lohr’s article and a more recent series by Farhad Manjoo in Slate , “ Will Robots Steal Your Job ,” examine the efforts of IT startups to develop software that performs skilled, creative work such as writing. She’s skeptical of claims that software can win Pulitzers or successfully mimic the human element in journalism.

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B2B Memes

OCTOBER 19, 2011

Does a typical mid-career editor on a print publication today need to learn software programming? Companies, governments, organizations and individuals are constantly putting more data online: Text, videos, audio files, animations, statistics, news reports, chatter on social networks. You must become its master.

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B2B Memes

MAY 9, 2012

Robot reporters are cornering the market on facts, as companies like Narrative Science and Automated Insights perfect the science of teaching software to turn data into news stories. The problem with traditional news is that traditional journalists are increasingly unnecessary to produce it.

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B2B Memes

DECEMBER 1, 2010

Earlier this week, for instance, Bob Scheier wrote about a company that has automated content production: “StatSheet of Durham, N.C. has developed software that writes (or, rather, assembles) stories based on statistics from college football and basketball, NASCAR and other sports.

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